
Originally Posted by
bridgman
If it's referring to the number of "quad pipes" (almost all of our chips from r300 on are built using one or more quad pipe blocks) then it probably is correct. Internally we talk about th R300 as a "2 pipe" chip, ie 2 quad pipes, and the X1650 would be a single pipe chip (except it has 3 times as many ALUs as an X1300).
Hopefully someone who knows the code will jump in here and confirm. The programming docs and register specs we released definitely talk about 1,2,3 or 4 papes -- not 4, 8, 12 or 16.